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Anyway onto the new segment.
Good - Last week was the first week in a long, long time that it was pretty slow in my department at work, allowing me to work at a much more leisurely pace.
Good - This should be a bad here, but I'm going to break with tradition and go right to another good. Friday night I took the ol' Western bus North to head back to Claremont to hang out with Flame for a while. If you don't know Flame's a cat who lives with my sister. I spent about two hours there petting him and chatting with him and cleaning myself with a lint roller, as he tends to shed quite a bit of fur. I also took some photos of him, which I should probably download and add to this here blog. Perhaps in a bit. Okay in a bit has occurred. So this is Flame posing with his good side, as he had less gunk in his right eye than the left. And below that he's checking out my iPhone, as he was curious how it worked and what apps I had purchased. I think his favorite was definitely the Hipstamatic camera app, which refused to work that night.
Well farewell kitty cat! You were quite a good cat for a damn long time and I'm happy to have spent so much time with you. I love you Flame.
Good - Had to get home after the vet so I could get ready and head out to Arlington Race Track for my friend Sean's Bachelor/Bachelorette party. I was taking the Metra, which usually isn't all that fun, but a couple Polish beers and some good songs on the iPod changed all that. Sometimes sitting and listening to good music while consuming a beer or two is a damn fine time. The only part of the trip that wasn't great was that I kept having to turn my head and burp because I didn't want to disgust the two women in front of me on the train. Lord knows what those smelled like.
Good - Arrived at the park and had only missed a couple of the races, the weather was beautiful and I was there with several friends that I hadn't seen in years, not to mention the happy couple Sean and Lindsey. Well this blog is taking forever as I had to stop for a burrito break, so I'll cut things a bit short. Last race of the day was upon us so as I wandered over to place my bet, I asked Marty and John if they wanted in on some of this action. Of course they said yes, so we placed a $2 trifectabox bet on horses 7, 12, and 3 I believe. I've gotta believe my kitty had passed along all his good luck to me as those three finished 1,2,3 in the race. I handed off my ticket to John to get in line, because I had to go use the john and when I came back he approached Marty and me from the ticket counter saying he didn't know how much we won, but we'd have to fill out a tax form. Always good to hear at the racetrack. Ends up we won $1750 on a $9 bet. Now you may be thinking how can a $2 trifectabox bet end up costing $9 as it should be $6. Well in a stroke of genius when I placed the bet I added an extra dollar to it, so we ended up with quite a bit more cash. In hindsight I should have placed a trifectabox with all the cash I had on me, but that would just be greedy. I'm plenty happy with what we won. So that was good.
Bad - Took me approximately 2 hours to get home from the racetrack. Won't bother going into details on this one, but it was quite a long time.
Good - Sunday afternoon I went along with Jody, Avery and Jackson to Avery's friend's birthday party at some Pump It Up place? I think that's the name. It's got giant inflatable things that the kids jump all over and run up and slide down and whatnot. All the sorts of things that I never had as a kid. Though to be fair Avery and Jackson don't have them either, they were just visiting. Pretty sure I got to bounce around in a few of those types of things, so scratch that never had as a kid part. That was just me being lame. Well it was fun to hang out with those three for the afternoon.
Bad - Took my camera along to the birthday party and pretty much every shot sucks. I couldn't figure out what the hell was going wrong. I just don't seem to do very well at pictures when it's kid parties. I think it may have had something to do with the VR on the camera, but not sure. Oh well, you live you learn. Also bad was that I had sandals on so I couldn't jump around on these things either. In hindsight I should have just bought some socks while I was there, but I made the decision to not bother. My bad.
Good - Bought 6 new shirts online from Threadless the other day and they showed up on Friday. They were pretty large looking so I was a bit worried they'd be too big, but I washed and dried one of them and it seemed to shrink a decent amount.
Bad - Wore my first new Threadless shirt to work today. Everyone was like, "Oh Dave that's an awesome shirt! Where'd you get it? How the fuck are you so damn cool all the time?" And I just sort of shrugged it all off in my not good at taking compliments/adoration type of way, which is also part of why I'm so cool. Okay no one said anything about the shirt. Wait, that's not true. Andrew told me he liked it and had thought about buying it previously. Anyway the bad part of this is that I took the bus home, got off at Ashland to deposit my track winnings in the bank, tried to get the next bus, which had already passed me by, and then ended up walking the rest of the way home, as there weren't any busses. Stupid bus lines. Got home and was about to walk in the door and I looked down at my shirt and there was a pretty large solid amount of bird shit right on the front of the shirt. Not sure how long it had been there, but I really can't quite figure out how a bird could shit on my shirt and I had no idea whatsoever. That is one hell of a stealth shit if I do say so myself.
Okay well that's the end of this Good/Bad blog. Damn this one took a long time.
